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Penguins don't wear sweaters!
When an oil spill prevents penguins from doing the things they love to do, Big Boots come and dress them in sweaters until they--and the water--can be cleaned. Includes facts about penguins.
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Proximity and Intra-Action in Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon
According to a 2011 United Nations report, there were over seven thousand oil spills in the Niger Delta between 1970-2000, prompting the report to call it one of the most polluted places on Earth (qtd Dixon 2011). [...]the ecocritical approach is highly appropriate for an analysis of Lagoon, as it attends to both the problem of environmental degradation on the African continent and the entangled ontology implicit in African cosmologies, while being intricately linked with the genre of science fiction. Organized in four parts, the first section establishes the link between multispecies entanglement and African science Action, specifically Lagoon; the second part addresses the nature of knowledge-making practices as portrayed in the novel and its challenge to the 'givenness' of bodily boundaries; the third part continues this debate about the determinacy of boundaries by discussing the role of diffraction in the novel; and finally, the fourth part deals with the issue of visibility raised in the novel and its implications for ecological interrelationships. According to Haraway, speculative fabulation is necessarily tied up with science fiction, science fantasy, string figures, speculative feminism, and science fact (Haraway 2016: 10).
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Prince William
On Prince William Sound in Alaska, Denny rescues a baby seal hurt by an oil spill and watches it recover at a nearby animal hospital.
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Fueling Culture
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to another-from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes next-transformed culture and society? What are the implications of uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which just get in the way? Fueling Culture offers a compendium of keywords written by scholars and practitioners from around the world and across the humanities and social sciences. These keywords offer new ways of thinking about energy as both the source and the limit of how we inhabit culture, with the aim of opening up new ways of understanding the seemingly irresolvable contradictions of dependence upon unsustainable energy forms. Fueling Culture brings together writing that is risk-taking and interdisciplinary, drawing on insights from literary and cultural studies, environmental history and ecocriticism, political economy and political ecology, postcolonial and globalization studies, and materialisms old and new. Keywords in this volume include: Aboriginal, Accumulation, Addiction, Affect, America, Animal, Anthropocene, Architecture, Arctic, Automobile, Boom, Canada, Catastrophe, Change, Charcoal, China, Coal, Community, Corporation, Crisis, Dams, Demand, Detritus, Disaster, Ecology, Electricity, Embodiment, Ethics, Evolution, Exhaust, Fallout, Fiction, Fracking, Future, Gender, Green, Grids, Guilt, Identity, Image, Infrastructure, Innervation, Kerosene, Lebenskraft, Limits, Media, Metabolism, Middle East, Nature, Necessity, Networks, Nigeria, Nuclear, Petroviolence, Photography, Pipelines, Plastics, Renewable, Resilience, Risk, Roads, Rubber, Rural, Russia, Servers, Shame, Solar, Spill, Spiritual, Statistics, Surveillance, Sustainability, Tallow, Texas, Textiles, Utopia, Venezuela, Whaling, Wood, Work For a full list of keywords in and contributors to this volume, please go to: http://ow.ly/4mZZxV
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The marauders : a novel
\"When the BP oil spill devastates the Gulf coast, those who made a living by shrimping find themselves in dire straits. For the oddballs and lowlifes who inhabit the sleepy, working class bayou town of Jeannette, these desperate circumstances serve as the catalyst that pushes them to enact whatever risky schemes they can dream up to reverse their fortunes. At the center of it all is Gus Lindquist, a pill-addicted, one-armed treasure hunter obsessed with finding the lost treasure of pirate Jean Lafitte\"--Amazon.com.
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An Oil Well Named Macondo: Latin American Literature in the Time of Global Capital
For three months in the spring and summer of 2010, almost five million gallons of crude oil gushed uncontrollably from a broken BP well into the Gulf of Mexico, in what is thus far the worst petroleum spill in history. At the moment the spill occurred, the world was still reeling from the largest international financial disaster the world has yet known, one that reverberated from Iceland to the United States to the outer edges of the European Union in Greece and Spain. If the financial crisis was characterized by the sudden disappearance of intangible and invisible financial value, the horrific spectacle of oil-drenched seascapes, birds, fish, and coastlines resulting from the BP spill was a tangible reminder that capitalism had still not been able to emancipate itself from its material body. Even more troubling was the fact that the first several attempts by the multi-billion-dollar company to stanch the broken well were stunning failures: daily news broadcasts brought into public consciousness terms like top kill and kill mud , as hydraulic engineers armed with golf balls and sundry varieties of foam tried to kill the sea monster created by BP.
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“Blood Petroleum”: True Blood, the BP Oil Spill, and Fictions of Energy/Culture
The third season of the HBO series True Blood, set in fictional Bon Temps, Louisiana, aired in a mediascape shaped by coverage of the BP oil spill that wreaked economic and ecological havoc on the US Gulf South during the summer of 2010. A retrospective examination of the series in this context, and against the grain of critical consensus labeling it mere escapism, demonstrates that taking True Blood seriously can yield compelling insights into the US Gulf South as a site in which convergences of the global and the local, of reality and representation, and of energy and cultural production result in the formation of a hybrid: energy/culture. Analysis of the storyline featuring the Vampire King of Mississippi shows how True Blood extends the long-standing cultural practice of making vampires screens for projecting collective desires and anxieties. Through a \"camp aesthetic\" that weaves into the Vampire King's maniacal pursuit of blood in various forms dire warnings about excessive consumption and environmental apocalypse, True Blood offers fictional ways to make meaning of the actual conditions and consequences of energy production and consumption brought to the surface with great urgency by the BP oil spill.
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GIS: a common operational picture for public safety and emergency management
Not so long ago, monitoring of remote incidents in real time with dozens of camera feeds and sensors linked seamlessly together was something you would expect from a national intelligence or space agency, or from science fiction. However, first responders, such as police and fire, and local city government buildings, public safety agencies, have used state-of-the-art computers and information systems to capture data for emergencies, but this type of emergency management involved multiple pieces that were not connected, and data certainly was not available in real time using a single seamless interface. GIS has long provided an integration platform for meeting the mission of public safety. This includes providing data management, planning and analysis, field enablement and situational awareness. From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina, to the 2007 fires in California, to the 2010 Winter Olympics and most recently the earthquake in Haiti, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, GIS has been a foundation technology linking data and workflows. A historical perspective of GIS and its integration into public safety is provided, including new developments and challenges facing public safety agencies and emergency managers in regards to GIS are discussed. This includes data acquisition by remote sensing and space technology, imagery, digital terrain and elevation models, geographic and data management systems, topographic representation, spatial and temporal variability of data and linking with numerical models. Data collection, processing and analysis have received a great deal of attention, while data validation, error propagation, and analyses of uncertainty, risk and reliability have not been treated as thoroughly. Furthermore, a discussion regarding the future outlook for GIS and its adoption into Public Safety and Emergency Management is also provided.
Conference Proceeding
When Science Fiction Isn't Fiction
While apocalyptic narratives have been part of popular culture for centuries and are common subject matter for films and literature, such stories now seem scarily realistic given the increasing impact of climate change. Brooke speaks with science fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer about the responsibility of fiction to illuminate the threats of climate change and human degradation of the planet, and how he imagines what our existence will look like in the coming years. His latest novel is Borne, and part of his Southern Reach Trilogy is being adapted as a movie for release next year.
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